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An independent 'chapter' of the Association Internationale d'Epigraphie Grecque et Latine. Aims, constitution, committee, events, news, jobs and prizes.
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British Epigraphy Society Homepage Welcome to the website of the British Epigraphy Society. The society exists to support and encourage the study of Greek, Roman and other inscriptions, texts and historical documents. This site contains information on the Society and its activities, as well...Professor Ayele Bekerie introduces the various writing systems of Africa including Ancient Egyptian, Meroitic and Ethiopic. Petroglyphs, pictographs, syllabic and alphabetic types.
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African Writing Systems Select a category from the menu or click in a region within the map. Introduction Syllographic Systems Alphabetic Systems Pictographic Systems Petrographic Systems Chromatographic Systems Philosophical Systems The African Writing Systems web site was created in 1996 by Professor Ayele...Project of the University of Virginia to create a searchable database of all the inscriptions from Israel from c.330 BC to 614 AD. Inscriptions from Beth She'arim currently available.
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Researcher Tom Malzbender has invented a tool that lets scholars see ancient inscribed texts in ways never before possible. Illustrated article from Hewlett-Packard Labs.
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HP Labs News 3dimaging Internet computing platforms Printing imaging Solutions services News and events Technical reports About HP Labs Careers HP Labs People Worldwide sites Downloads Yale scholar Walter Bodine had spent the better part of four long years painstakingly transcribing the ancient Sumerian...Describes use of Unicode for encoding dead and academic scripts.
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Unicode will soon ensure a nearly unlimited data flow across national boundaries, across continents and cultural regions, without these data being equalized in script and format so as not to exceed the character processing capabilities of computers connected to the...Jesús RodrÃguez Ramos discusses and illustrates the languages and writing systems of Spain and Portugal, including Celtiberian and Sudlusitanian-Tartessian, with selected bibliography.
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IBERIAN EPIGRAPHY PAGE In order to avoid special signs displaying problems, in these pages I have usually replaced the correct transcripton of accented signs as sign plus accent: that is, be aware that r s and m are to be understood as the...Research facility for the study of Greek and Latin inscriptions and manuscripts in the United States. Its purpose is to foster the study of inscriptions and manuscripts and promote research opportunities for those interested in these primary sources of information for the ancient and medieval world.
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Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies CENTER FOR EPIGRAPHICAL AND PALAEOGRAPHICAL STUDIES General Information Faculty and Staff Special Collections Fellowships Courses and Events Epigraphy Summer Course Greek Photo Catalog Latin Photo Catalog Greek Squeeze Collection Latin Squeeze Collection J.M.R. Cormack Macedonian Collection Squeezes Collection of Manuscripts...Attempt to collect all published and unpublished Neo-Assyrian texts into an electronic database.
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The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project Assyrian texts into an electronic database, Corpus of Neo-Assyrian (CNA and maintain the database as a research tool; use the CNA database to publish up-to-date critical text editions of texts written in Neo-Assyrian in a series of volumes organized by...A scholarly discussion forum for those people with a professional interest in Greek and Latin epigraphy.
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Yahoo! Groups Inscriptiones-l Inscriptiones is a scholarly discussion forum for those people with a professional interest in Greek and Latin epigraphy. Home Messages Members Only Post Chat Files Photos Database Polls Calendar Promote Info Settings Group InformationMembers: 216 Category: Ancient History Founded: Jan...Journal of the German Archaeological Institute, covering many epigraphic topics. Lsts content of recent volumes.
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Chiron. Mitteilungen der Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Instituts druckerfreundliche Version Infos zur Reihe: Im Chiron werden Aufsätze aus dem gesamten Gebiet der Alten Geschichte, einschließlich Epigraphik, Papyrologie und historische Topographie, veröffentlicht. Titel: Chiron. Mitteilungen der Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Verlag: Verlag...International Journal for Papyrology and Ancient Epigraphics, covering the full spectrum of ancient texts. The articles are written in the author's languages, including English, German, and French.
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Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE) Manuskripte eingereicht werden? Bezugsmglichkeiten, Preise, Jahresabonnement Indices aller ZPE-Bnde Index der im Druck befindlichen Ausgabe, Band 153, 2005 Links zu anderen Papyrologie- und Epigraphik-Seiten im WWW Download von ZPE-Aufstzen (Neu: Bnde 80-83 (1990 2001, 2002 2003 (kostenpflichtig Sie sind Besucher...Ole Hagen argues that this inscription from Minoan Crete is a calendar. Includes drawings of both faces of the disc.
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The Phaistos disc A radical survey of the various lay-out for a precision calendar, based on my discovery of duplexity, within the realistic borders of the type-face interpretation of the inscription. As a set-off to the previous opinion of the types as syllables...The epigraphic survey of this institute of the University of Chicago was founded in 1924 and continues to record inscriptions and decoration on Ancient Egyptian monuments.
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THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE AND EPIGRAPHY His observation of the many discrepancies in the publications shocked him and impressed upon him the importance of careful recording of texts the discipline known as epigraphy His resolve to record the ancient inscriptions properly was strengthened by his realization...A lexicographic tool for reading texts written in a late stage of the ancient Egyptian language and in a highly cursive script known as Demotic.
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OI PUBLICATIONS Chicago Demotic Dictionary (CDD) Egyptian language and in a highly cursive script known as Demotic. In use from ca. 650 B.C. until the middle of the fifth century A.D Demotic served as the medium for a wide variety of text types. These include documentary...Proposes a connection between the Phaistos Disc, the Arkalochorie axe and Linear A.
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The Phaistos Disc The only safe course at present is to proceed on the assumption that each of the scripts records a different language. As evidence accumulates, similarities will become self evident, if they exist We have six Minoan scripts. We can try...Proposed phonetic translation. Includes bibliography, and images.
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Linear A Texts: Homepage Texts in phonetic transcription Introduction inaugural date: 26 November 2000; last update: 22 July 2005 Recent changes: 22 July 2005long explanation of why DD is not a fraction but the Double Mina D should therefore be the single mina, not...